Gliding Past Aduanas: The Spanish Vocabulary You Need to Bring Household Goods Duty-Free into the Dominican Republic
The Day My Blender Got Detained I still remember the hum of ceiling fans and the smell of caramelized coffee at Las Américas International Airport wh
Getting Your Wheels (and Words) Around Medellín’s “Pico y Placa”
One steamy August morning, just before the afternoon aguacero that Medellín loves to throw at unsuspecting outsiders, I found myself stuck at a polic
Getting Your Colombian RUT Number: Street-Level Spanish, Forms & Cultural Clues
Last August, on the sticky, mango-sweet morning after landing in Bogotá, I discovered that my fine-tuned Dominican survival instincts did not automat
Getting Paid & Paying Others: Navigating Nómina, Comprobante de Pago, and Freelancer Invoices with Real-World Spanish
How My First Dominican Paycheck Turned Into a Crash Course in Culture I still remember the sticky Santo Domingo afternoon when I collected my very fir
Getting Everyone on the Same Page: Agenda-Setting Tricks for Bilingual Zoom Meetings
I once spent forty minutes in a Santo Domingo–Madrid product sync arguing about the word “ticket.” Half the call used the English “ticket,”